It is Wednesday, the 30th of September, and the day after the first presidential debate between Pres. Trump and Vice Pres. Biden. I am sitting at my desk in our home (still self-isolating) listening to meditative music to put down my thoughts…trying to calm myself after last night’s debate…still. I am angry, stunned, and feeling hopeless which fuels the anger.
I should not be so surprised by the debate, but I still am…flabbergasted
in fact. I will just take one question
from the debate…
Do you believe in the science of climate change?
Pres. Trump went off on the fires in California…where part
of my family live now in Sonoma County breathing in ashes, smoke and wondering
if they will be evacuated. He said the
fires are due to bad forest management and besides a billion trees are being
planted. That’s his plan!
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| President Trump - Vice-President Biden Shutterstock licensed photos |
Climate change is an existential threat to life on the planet.
I wish Chris Wallace had asked him more about the rise in
storms and the severity which has nothing to do with forest management, but the
reality of that particular debate was that no real question got a serious answer as the president…MY
president…blustered, interrupted, and bomb-basted everything Biden said and
everything Wallace asked.
Biden was better but he had a difficult time getting words
in…I’m sure the stress added to his speech impediment: but several times he called
Pres. Trump “a clown.”
Climate change is a serious topic. Debates NOW should only be about what we are doing and will do next week to slow the heating of the planet’s atmosphere and oceans…not
whether it is true or not and certainly not blaming everyone else like China
for the problem especially as the president has rolled back one law after
another to slow carbon emissions.
We as U.S. citizens have to continue to remember we benefited as well
as polluted the air with the industrial revolution. We are addicted to cars and comfort and as a
result our nation is one of the largest carbon polluters globally of the air that the rest of the world has to
breathe. We also have to remember any
global effort being made is without the U.S. now, since MY president pulled MY nation out
of the Paris Climate Accords.
How in the world can we go on like this?
Oh! and by the way this meditative music is not helping one
single bit.
-Kathleen
